Awoken
A young medical student attempts to cure her brother of a terminal sleep illness where you are unable to sleep until you die.
Karla (Sara West, Ash vs Evil Dead), a young medical student, is desperate to find a cure for a genetic, terminal sleep disorder affecting her brother Blake (Benson Jack Anthony, 800 words), called Fatal Familial Insomnia. She agrees to participate in an experimental treatment being carried out in an abandoned underground hospital, led by trusted father-figure, Robert (Erik Thompson, The Furnace).
She soon discovers long lost tapes that reveal sinister secrets about her mother’s death from the same genetic condition passed on to her brother, and after a series of terrifying and tragic events point to the supernatural, Karla a self-professed atheist, comes to the conclusion that the only cure may be an exorcism. The person she trusts most, however, has other ideas…
Director
Language
English
Country
Australia